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Peter Frank
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:31 pm
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Hi,
You certainly know the type of hard skin that you can get on your feet
and toes and especially women remove or have removed as part of their
pedicure. Is there a word for that? I was thinking of "horny skin" but
it just sounds too weird to me because of the slang usage of "horny".
Or is this actually the correct term? And what would you call the
instrument used to "grate off" this skin?
Peter
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:03 pm
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"Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:1124875872.268783.309000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | You certainly know the type of hard skin that you can get on your feet
and toes and especially women remove or have removed as part of their
pedicure. Is there a word for that? I was thinking of "horny skin" but
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Most commonly plaque, sometimes plaques.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:29 pm
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On 24 Aug 2005 02:31:12 -0700, "Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
You certainly know the type of hard skin that you can get on your feet
and toes and especially women remove or have removed as part of their
pedicure. Is there a word for that? I was thinking of "horny skin" but
it just sounds too weird to me because of the slang usage of "horny".
Or is this actually the correct term? And what would you call the
instrument used to "grate off" this skin?
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They are calluses, Google for <callus foot> for loads of hits.
--
Jim
"a single species has come to dominate ...
reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
infectious plague envelops its host"
http://tinyurl.com/c88xs
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Pat Durkin
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:11 pm
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"Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:1124875872.268783.309000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | Hi,
You certainly know the type of hard skin that you can get on your feet
and toes and especially women remove or have removed as part of their
pedicure. Is there a word for that? I was thinking of "horny skin" but
it just sounds too weird to me because of the slang usage of "horny".
Or is this actually the correct term? And what would you call the
instrument used to "grate off" this skin?
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Same thing men get on their feet and toes: callus.
I was talking to a cousin, who used to go to the doctor to have the callus
removed, but who now does it for herself. She uses a special razor, so I am
thinking, though I never asked, that she got it and the replacement blades
from a medical or cosmetics supply store. I haven't seen her do this
pedicure.
Her son-in-law, she says, has calluses approaching half an inch thick on his
feet. They crack and bleed. He works in construction, and uses hard-toed
shoes. The environment inside those shoes seems perfect for the development
of trench foot or other fungus infections, but so far the guy isn't limping.
In summer, my wearing of sandals seems to encourage callus buildup on the
outer edges of my soles, but I keep some control of that by soaking my feet
weekly and (usually) a good scraping with my fingernails brings the callus
under control. I do scrub the soles vigorously with the wash cloth daily.
There have been times when I neglected the callus, only to find that
changing shoes reveals a bit of discomfort on the "corners" at the outside
edges of the soles of my feet.
I don't know about "graters", but I understand pumice stone is another
beauty secret for those who like soft elbows and feet. |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:04 pm
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Pat Durkin wrote:
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| Quote: | I don't know about "graters", but I understand pumice stone is
another
beauty secret for those who like soft elbows and feet.
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My murderously effective grater is called a "callus remover".
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Mike. |
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meirman
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:01 am
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In alt.english.usage on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:11:25 GMT "Pat Durkin"
<durkinpa@nothome.com> posted:
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Same thing men get on their feet and toes: callus.
I was talking to a cousin, who used to go to the doctor to have the callus
removed, but who now does it for herself. She uses a special razor, so I am
thinking, though I never asked, that she got it and the replacement blades
from a medical or cosmetics supply store. I haven't seen her do this
pedicure.
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This summer I was barefoot in my kitchen and I got something in my
heel. It wasn't wood. I think it was a piece of copper wire, but I
couldn't get a hold of it with anything. Really hurt if I let that
part of my heel hit the floor, and I knew it would get much worse.
So I took a knife and started scraping off my heel callus. It took a
millimeter or possibly two until I was sure the wire was gone. I knew
how deep I could go from one prior perverse occasion a couple years
ago when I did the same thing for no good reason. That time, I drew a
little blood, so I don't do it for fun after this one time.
| Quote: | Her son-in-law, she says, has calluses approaching half an inch thick on his
feet. They crack and bleed. He works in construction, and uses hard-toed
shoes.
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When I wore steel-toed shoes, for part of one summer, they weren't the
right size and they always sucked my socks off.
| Quote: | The environment inside those shoes seems perfect for the development
of trench foot or other fungus infections, but so far the guy isn't limping.
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I've never recommended a podiatrist, but there are lots of people on
their feet all day long, doing hard work even, who don't have cracked
and bleeding calluses. I'll bet most of his co-workers don't.
| Quote: | In summer, my wearing of sandals seems to encourage callus buildup on the
outer edges of my soles, but I keep some control of that by soaking my feet
weekly and (usually) a good scraping with my fingernails brings the callus
under control. I do scrub the soles vigorously with the wash cloth daily.
There have been times when I neglected the callus, only to find that
changing shoes reveals a bit of discomfort on the "corners" at the outside
edges of the soles of my feet.
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I don't like sandals for a variety of reasons. AIUI, the most
important thing is shoes that fit.
s/ meirman
Posting from alt.english.usage
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My English in this reply is colloquial, and may not always use full sentences.
For gosh sakes, when you ask a question, say what sort of English you are asking about.
When you give an answer, say in what part of the world you think your answer is valid.
If you are emailing me please
say if you are posting the same response.
Town NW of Pittsburgh Pa. 0 to 10 years | Brooklyn 12 years
Indianapolis 7 years | Now in
Chicago 6 years | Baltimore 22 years |
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Nick Worley
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:07 am
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"Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:1124875872.268783.309000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | Hi,
You certainly know the type of hard skin that you can get on your feet
and toes and especially women remove or have removed as part of their
pedicure. Is there a word for that? I was thinking of "horny skin" but
it just sounds too weird to me because of the slang usage of "horny".
Or is this actually the correct term?
And what would you call the
instrument used to "grate off" this skin?
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A Google search for "horny skin" produces 800 odd hits (not that many),
whereas the German "Hornhaut" OTOH produces 286,000 hits. I wouldn't use
"horny skin" in everyday speech, since "horny" (as you say) is obviously
more commonly understood to mean "sexually aroused". From the hits I'd
assume that the term "horny skin" *is* used in medical contexts, though.
[See *** at the end of this post].
The Scholl website is pretty informative:
http://www.drscholls.com/index.aspx
The "hard skin" you refer to may be "corns" or "calluses". "hard skin"
sounds perfectly OK to me as a general term though. Or you could also use
"thick skin", "rough skin", "hardened skin" or "call(o)used skin", depending
on the context.
Scholl makes the following products (and no I don't work for Scholl!):
- Corn Removers
- Callus Removers
- Callus Exfoliating Ointment
Scholl also do several "Pedicure Implements" for hard skin:
http://www.drscholls.com/prodselect.aspx?pgid=11
- Dual-Action Swedish File
- Exfoliating Stone File (not sure from the images how this file differs to
the Swedish File)
- Contoured File
- Beauty Stone (commonly called a "pumice stone")
- Skin-Softening Foot Rasp (I'd just call it a "rasp" or "grater" -- this
one looks like a metal cheese grater)
[So basically then 3 types of file, a pumice stone and a (metal)
rasp/grater].
Regards
Nick
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*** The following is copied from the Roche & Mosby medical dictionaries:
Roche:
Hornhaut: (= Stratum corneum; i.e.S. die Hornschwiele (callus)) stratum
corneum, horny layer
Roche:
Stratum corneum: die Hornschicht der Epidermis als oberste Hautschicht;
besteht aus verschmolzenen, Keratin enthaltenden, flachen Zellen (ohne
Zellorganellen); die Zellen der obersten Schichten (St. disjunctum)
schilfern als Schuppen (Squama cornea) ab.
Mosby:
Stratum corneum (also called horny layer): the horny, outermost layer of the
skin, composed of dead cells converted to keratin that continually flake
away. The thickness of the layer is related to the normal wear of the area
it covers. The stratum corneum is thick on the palms of the hands and the
soles of the feet but thin over more protected areas. |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:47 am
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Nick Worley wrote:
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| Quote: | A Google search for "horny skin" produces 800 odd hits (not that
many), whereas the German "Hornhaut" OTOH produces 286,000 hits. I
wouldn't use "horny skin" in everyday speech, since "horny" (as you
say) is obviously more commonly understood to mean "sexually
aroused". From the hits I'd assume that the term "horny skin" *is*
used in medical contexts, though.
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And elsewhere. They once spoke of "horny-handed sailors" without a
blush: one of Arthur Ransome's boaty youngsters (probably Titty)
examined her hands, hoping they were getting a bit horny. At least
once somebody in P.G.Wodehouse uses "the horny-handed" for
working-class people.
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Mike. |
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Nick Worley
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:04 am
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"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Nick Worley wrote:
[...]
A Google search for "horny skin" produces 800 odd hits (not that
many), whereas the German "Hornhaut" OTOH produces 286,000 hits. I
wouldn't use "horny skin" in everyday speech, since "horny" (as you
say) is obviously more commonly understood to mean "sexually
aroused". From the hits I'd assume that the term "horny skin" *is*
used in medical contexts, though.
[...]
And elsewhere. They once spoke of "horny-handed sailors" without a
blush: one of Arthur Ransome's boaty youngsters (probably Titty)
examined her hands, hoping they were getting a bit horny. At least
once somebody in P.G.Wodehouse uses "the horny-handed" for
working-class people.
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That's interesting - you live and learn.
Cheers
Nick |
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